Greek town of Preveza bets on slow tourism to overcome COVID-19

Based on family tourism, Preveza is not familiar with the mass tourism of the top Greek destinations, such as the neighbouring Ionian Islands or Crete.

But in the COVID-19 era, when tourism is at half mast, the town city of Preveza has launched a European promotional campaign.

Officials in Preveza hope that it's just this kind of small, family-run business that will help them overcome the coronavirus' impact on travel - while sparing the region the environmental impact and economic distortions of the mass tourism more common on Crete or the Ionian islands.

Tourists take part in a dolphin watching tour from a boat in the Amvrakikos gulf in Perveza.

For Greece as a whole, a gamble on reopening its borders to tourists as early as June appears to have paid off for now.

Tourists take part in a dolphin watching tour from a boat in the Amvrakikos gulf in Perveza.

Tourists dive from a boat and swim during a dolphin watching tour in the Amvrakikos gulf in Preveza.

Nestled between green hills, the Ambracian Gulf is fed by rivers descending from the mountains of the Epirus region of northwestern Greece.

Tourists dive from a boat and swim during a dolphin watching tour in the Amvrakikos gulf in Preveza.

Tourists dive from a boat and swim during a dolphin watching tour in the Amvrakikos gulf in Preveza.